This month’s blog will differ slightly from the previous ones in that it will refer to the current crisis in Turkey in the aftermath of an earthquake. The humanitarian crisis brought about by natural disasters touches on aspects of global health which we have mentioned in previous articles, and others more specific to the […]
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Intrapulmonary mature cystic teratoma presenting with haemoptysis treated with right middle lobectomy in a low-resource setting
Article reference: Intrapulmonary mature cystic teratoma presenting with haemoptysis treated with right middle lobectomy in a low-resource setting Vijay Anand Ismavel and Ann Miriam Intrapulmonary mature cystic teratoma presenting with haemoptysis treated with right middle lobectomy in a low-resource setting – is a case report layered with global health problematics relevant to first world […]
How inequity threatens the lives of pregnant women: barriers to accessing health services during an incomplete miscarriage in rural southern Mexico
Article reference: How inequity threatens the lives of pregnant women: barriers to accessing health services during an incomplete miscarriage in rural southern Mexico. Karen Gutiérrez-Peláez, Zeus Aranda, Andrea Jiménez-Peña and Hellen Mata-González The case report “How inequity threatens the lives of pregnant women: barriers to accessing health services during an incomplete miscarriage in rural […]
Alleviating diabetes distress and improving diabetes self-management through health coaching in a primary care setting
Article reference: Chima CC, Swanson B, Anikpezie N, et al, Alleviating diabetes distress and improving diabetes self-management through health coaching in a primary care setting, BMJ Case Reports CP 2021;14:e241759. Chronic medical diseases such as hypertension, diabetes and heart disease can greatly burden a patient with recurrent need for daily medication adherence and lifestyle changes. In this global health case […]
Surviving violent, traumatic loss after severe political persecution: lessons from the evaluation of a Venezuelan asylum seeker; McQuaid et al
Article Reference: McQuaid JH, Silva MA, McKenzie KC, Surviving violent, traumatic loss after severe political persecution: lessons from the evaluation of a Venezuelan asylum seeker, BMJ Case Reports CP 2021;14:e239025. McQuaide et al present a different kind of global health case report: when global health reaches our backyard. Immigration health has always been a concern but more so in the […]
Specialist shortage in developing countries: comprehending delays in care
Reference: Khan KJ, Raza VF Specialist shortage in developing countries: comprehending delays in care, BMJ Case Reports CP 2021;14:e235542. In developed countries we take appendectomies or cholecystectomies as minor bred and butter procedures. These are life saving procedures often performed in due time in developed countries. The case presented to us by Khan & Raza underlines the difficulty in […]
Traumatic subdural haematoma: integrating case-based clinical judgement with guidelines
Reference: Samitinjay A, Karri SR, Khairkar P, et al. Traumatic subdural haematoma: integrating case-based clinical judgement with guidelines, BMJ Case Reports CP 2020;13:e233197. Samitinjay et al. bring up two very crucial points in this case report: the importance of being able to deviate from guidelines which were not written with developing country resources in mind, and the necessity to train surgical […]
Hereditary angioedema: the challenges of cross-border family investigation and treatment
Reference: Brix ATH, Svensson TM, Sandberg M, et alHereditary angioedema: the challenges of cross-border family investigation and treatmentBMJ Case Reports CP 2020;13:e231906. doi: 10.1136/bcr-2019-231906 Trier Heiberg Brix et al. present the case of an 8 year old female from Syria, who immigrated to Denmark in 2014. The patient was hospitalized for what appeared to be […]
Overcoming the health system barriers to early diagnosis and management of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in a rural setting in North India
Bashar MA, Aggarwal A, Bhattacharya S. BMJ Case Rep 2020;13:e231009. doi:10.1136/bcr-2019- 231009 According to the World Health organization (WHO), Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the top ten causes of mortality worldwide and the leading cause from a single infectious agent[1]. Though the incidence of TB is decreasing at a rate of 2% a year, the incidence in 2018 […]
Kangaroo mother care: need of the day
Neonatal mortality figures in developing globally as of 2016 was 19 per 1000 live birth [1], 28% due to preterm birth [2]. Prematurity, babies born prior to 37 weeks of gestation, puts newborns at risk for infections, hypothermia, development delay, visual disorders and long term morbidity. In developed countries Neonatal Intensive Care Units where trained […]